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There are things out there, in the weirder reaches of space-time where reality is an optional extra. Horrible things, usually with tentacles. Good thing there's a bureaucracy to deal with them. Based on the Laundry Files novels by Charles Stross. Learn more at our website: http://www.cubicle7.co.uk/our-games/the-laundry/

As far as I remember it, gorgonism is a large tumor-like growth in the brain, which causes both eyes to "stone" Also it was based on the quantum-mechanics of "observing" something, so if the gorgon could somehow gain extra senses based on observating something somehow, the gorgonism should work.

Then there's regeneration, ressurrection, ubbo-sathla healing tissue, magical glasses and so on, which might enable a gorgon to regain lost vision.

IIRC, the gorgon effect is an 'observer mediated' whim-wham, which (in its technological incarnation) requires two points of view - for SCORPION STARE weapons, you have to be caught by two cameras to initiate the effect. Remember, in The Jennifer Morgue, Bob had to jack a external camera into his PDA to run the SS software function.

Perhaps the same thing applies to organic, naturally-occurring gorgons... If it requires a pair of overlapping observations both feeding into the same central processing node and you eliminate one of those possible observations, you've disarmed your gorgon.

Of course, the naturally-occurring gorgons cause much worse damage, with a lot more of the target's carbon transformed to silicon and a resulting increase in both waste-heat and radiation shed into the local environment. Prosecuting one of those contacts would be a case in which the Laundry's often-used cover as officers of the Civil Nuclear Constabulary would be entirely appropriate, and useful.

Interresstingly enough this gave me the idea of a "cyclops curse" which would merge a setup of close eyebulbs into one.
I love spells that can mess with a few abilities, so I will make a general spell that can be cast at anyone, and which has some downsides, but also a few upsides.

curse of the cyclops:
for the duration of this spell, the target loses any "stoning"-abilities and all skills demanding sight to work become difficult. The target gains the ability to see thaumic radiation and will therefore see invisible or glamoured beings outlined.

So, I spent a little time looking up "classical" Gorgonism and came across the description of a cockatrice - a lizard/chicken mutation with a killing gaze.

So what happens when you get a naturally-occurring gorgonism outbreak in a factory poultry operation? To the uninitiated, it looks like arson with a creepy side-order of radiological terrorism targeting Great Britain's food supply.

[After some more Google/Wikipedia research]: Well, it appears that chicken manure makes great base-stock for explosives manufacture. Ammonia, nitrates, etc. I'll bet it burns beautifully when subjected to the carbon-silicon cascade reaction you get when a natural gorgon cooks off a target. Most of these industrial poultry operations need to take major steps to contain their regular output of chicken waste (3.5-5.0 kg/month/bird), which means one of these factory-farms could pose a major hazard if the carbon-silicon cascade reaction caused by gorgon exposure lights off the storage siloes...

Gives a whole new meaning to getting sent out on a "chicken-shit" incident...